meechy6ix0
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So please bear with my stupidity, but I got my first Wrangler(a Rubicon), and did stuff without knowing what the hell I was doing.
I’m on a trip in Tahoe City, and we stopped by a flat with a bank that had snow. Wanting to take a picture with the car in the snow, I went down the bank when the snow was deep and soft.
I went 4L and locked front and rears thinking that would help me out at the time, and of course it didn’t. Of course turning left and right and giving it a lot of short bursts of throttle trying whatever I was trying after I had everything locked up. Since I was stuck in snow with no traction whatsoever, I’m hoping that part didn’t cause any damage.
Eventually I got a recovery guy come and pull me out, but this is where I get concerned. He told me to keep my lockers engaged. And to give it a little bit of gas in reverse to help as he was pulling me out. But once I hit the pavement, I had to turn all the way right to avoid being pulled into a pole. This was a couple of feet.
Now that I’m out, I went to turn off the lockers. But they didn’t want to disengage, I’m assuming because I had steering angle. I couldn’t move forward since I was still facing the bank. So with the steering still locked to the right, I continued reversing until I was parallel with the road shoulder. At this point, I try disengaging the lockers again but it keeps flashing so I’m thinking I have to straighten out and roll for a little bit. This is all on pavement. So as I’m turning the steering wheel left, it feels looser than I’m expecting, and the car continues to veer right as I’m rolling forward slowly. I keep slowly stopping and tugging the wheel left, and then rolling and then tugging the weight left, and repeating. Eventually the car straightens out and I’m able to disengage the lockers. I then get out of 4L and the rest of the drive seemed fine.
Later that night, I went to check if I could still get into 4L and engage the lockers in the parking lot. I rolled a few feet in 4L, and then engaged the lockers and rolled a few feet, and then disengaged the lockers. Then I did a small U turn in 4L to get more space to try to get a 1-3mph roll to get out of 4L since it wasn’t easy to get it out while stopped. During the U turn, with the steering locked left there was a little bit of creaking. Got out of 4L. Everything seems okay right now, but I’m concerned.
So please bear with all of this. Experienced off roaders, what I did damage?
I’m on a trip in Tahoe City, and we stopped by a flat with a bank that had snow. Wanting to take a picture with the car in the snow, I went down the bank when the snow was deep and soft.
I went 4L and locked front and rears thinking that would help me out at the time, and of course it didn’t. Of course turning left and right and giving it a lot of short bursts of throttle trying whatever I was trying after I had everything locked up. Since I was stuck in snow with no traction whatsoever, I’m hoping that part didn’t cause any damage.
Eventually I got a recovery guy come and pull me out, but this is where I get concerned. He told me to keep my lockers engaged. And to give it a little bit of gas in reverse to help as he was pulling me out. But once I hit the pavement, I had to turn all the way right to avoid being pulled into a pole. This was a couple of feet.
Now that I’m out, I went to turn off the lockers. But they didn’t want to disengage, I’m assuming because I had steering angle. I couldn’t move forward since I was still facing the bank. So with the steering still locked to the right, I continued reversing until I was parallel with the road shoulder. At this point, I try disengaging the lockers again but it keeps flashing so I’m thinking I have to straighten out and roll for a little bit. This is all on pavement. So as I’m turning the steering wheel left, it feels looser than I’m expecting, and the car continues to veer right as I’m rolling forward slowly. I keep slowly stopping and tugging the wheel left, and then rolling and then tugging the weight left, and repeating. Eventually the car straightens out and I’m able to disengage the lockers. I then get out of 4L and the rest of the drive seemed fine.
Later that night, I went to check if I could still get into 4L and engage the lockers in the parking lot. I rolled a few feet in 4L, and then engaged the lockers and rolled a few feet, and then disengaged the lockers. Then I did a small U turn in 4L to get more space to try to get a 1-3mph roll to get out of 4L since it wasn’t easy to get it out while stopped. During the U turn, with the steering locked left there was a little bit of creaking. Got out of 4L. Everything seems okay right now, but I’m concerned.
So please bear with all of this. Experienced off roaders, what I did damage?
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